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qaddafi lived a life of violence, so it was perhaps inevitable that he would die a violent death. after two months on the run, the ousted libyan dictator was finally hunted down, captured, and killed-- a bullet to the head. qaddafi for decades surrounded himself with riches at the expense of his own people, ruled with an iron fist and killed americans in a rein of terror. he spent his final minutes in tatters, cowering in fear of the vengeance that awaited him. we have a team of correspondents covering the fall of qaddafi. the end came today in his hometown of sirte. (screaming) the rebels dragged moammar qaddafi-- once the most powerful man in libya-- out of a drainage ditch. and that's when the mayhem started. qaddafi's last moments were recorded. this is what 42 years of rage looks like.
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his last words reportedly were "don't kill me, don't kill my sons." but amid the screams of "god is great" qaddafi met his end. beaten and shot, rebels hoisted qaddafi's body on to a track so the crowds could see their pri prize. (cheering) an ambulance pulled up to take the body away. photojournalist holly pickett was traveling with the ambulance drivers and told us about the scene. >> i couldn't see his face at first. he was bare-chested. there was some blood on his pants but i could tell that he looked dead and then i saw the top of his head there was blood and his hair which is like the signature of qaddafi, the frizzy air. they were very excited and, of course, you know, giving me the victory sign. they also at one point pulled out a boot that they said was
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colonel qaddafi's and were sort of holding it out the window. yeah, they were just ecstatic. >> pelley: there is jubilation in the libyan capital of tripoli tonight. reporter kitty logan is there now and, kitty, what have you been seeing? >> reporter: scenes of euphoria in the city today. it started when the first rumors came out that colonel qaddafi might have been captured with the honking of horns, gunfire, celebratory gunfire, people shooting into the air. and when that news was confirmed, the city erupted. people here absolutely rapturous on the... hearing the news that colonel qaddafi was actually killed when the attempt to capture him went on today. this, of course, was what the revolution was about. this is what libyans have been fighting for for the past eight months, so today here in tripoli there is celebration, there is relief, and there is optimism. >> pelley: so, kitty, what now? what is libya doing to get a
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government organized? >> reporter: the national transitional council is still in place but it's thought by tomorrow they can declare libya theirs. they now control the entire country. until this morning, of course, sirte was still held by qaddafi loyalists. and they can bring the country together. the east can meet the west, people can now travel from one country to the other. of course there's an awful lot of work to do. they've got to rebuild from scratch. they've got to get rid of the scars of the qaddafi dictatorship. but people here now feel that they can move forward now that colonel qaddafi has gone for good. >> pelley: kitty, thank you very much. qaddafi's end began with an american drone, part of a nato attack that stopped a convoy leaving qaddafi's hometown. david martin has been talking to his sources at the pentagon and lays out what happened. >> reporter: this morning, french warplanes an an american predator drone attacked a giant convoy of more than 100 four wheel drive vehicles fleeing
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west out of qaddafi's hometown of sirte. the convoy tried to evade the aircraft by splitting into smaller parts but at least 15 of them were hit and their occupants killed. the vehicle, which turned out to be carrying qaddafi, was damaged but not destroyed. he and his bodyguards abandoned the vehicle and took cover in drainage pipes running under the highway where they were cornered by a band of anti-qaddafi fighters. already festooned with graffiti, this is where qaddafi-- who once lived in splendor-- made his last stand. who shot him is still a mystery. according to one account, it was his own bodyguards-- one of whom can be seen lying dead on the ground. presumably they wanted to spare him from being captured. grandiose to the end, qaddafi was armed with a golden pistol which is now a prize trophy for rebels who eight months ago didn't stand a chance against one of the world's most repressive regimes. as this gruesome video shows, qaddafi was taken alive and
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handled roughly. whether he would have survived his wounds with better treatment is not known. one of his sons was also killed today and another reported captured. with most of qaddafi's inner circle either dead, captured, more to exile nato, after flying more than 26,000 missions, can now end its bombing campaign. that could happen as soon as tomorrow, although reconnaissance flights are likely to continue a while longer. now for the hard part: establishing a democratic form of government in a country that has known nothing but qaddafi for the past four decades. >> pelley: david, thank you very much. 42 years to be exact, the longest dictatorship in the arab world. if he had not been a sponsor of terror at home and abroad, qaddafi might have been comic-- a man consumed by pride and greed, oblivious to the spectacle he'd become, a despot in robes. we asked mark phillips to tell us more about the life of
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moammar qaddafi. >> reporter: he's been called many things over his 42 years of power-- erratic, deceitful, a murderous megalomaniac. moammar qaddafi survived for as long as he did on a unique blend of fear, farce, fulmination, and self-delusion. >> they love me, all my people with me, they love me all. they will die to protect me, my people. >> reporter: but he ran the country as a kind of hermit kingdom, a closed world where he wrote the rules in his little green book. qaddafi, though, broke his own rules at home and broke the rules of acceptable behavior abroad-- becoming an international maverick. when libya was implicated in a 1986 berlin nightclub bombing that killed two american servicemen, the u.s. struck back. >> this mad dog of the middle east has a goal of a world revolution.
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>> reporter: president reagan ordered air strikes on qaddafi's compound-- reportedly killing his 15-month-old adopted daughter. two years later in what many believed was qaddafi's response, a bomb blew up pan am 103 over lockerbie scotland, killing 270 people. qaddafi denied ordering the bombing. >> (translated): as i stated, we had nothing to do with it. >> reporter: the experience of another middle eastern strong man who hung on for too long-- saddam hussein-- may have convinced the libyan leader there was no future in isolation. he transformed himself from international pariah to ally of the west. but moammar qaddafi's new friends were the fair-weather kind. when libyan opposition forces finally rose up against him, nato quickly joined the fight on their side. the bombing campaign leveled the battlefield and ultimately tipped in the the rebels' favor.
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moammar qaddafi's past finally caught up with him. even his legendary defiance could not stand up to the force of history. mark phillips, cbs news, london. >> pelley: those who died on pan am 103 were students, bankers, soldiers, many flying home for the holidays. we asked jim axelrod to speak with the brother of one of the victims about the significance of qaddafi's death. >> he was just 21 monday! >> reporter: for nearly 23 years, the families had been waiting for this, families like j.p. flynn's. >> you dream about a day like today. >> reporter: flynn was a 21-year-old college student who perished aboard flight 103. today his younger brother brian couldn't get enough of the news. >> all of a sudden the man behind it all, the one who started it all, moammar qaddafi, was killed. vividly. we got to see pictures of it, videos of it. and part of me wishes i didn't
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have the reaction i did, which is "yes!" >> reporter: flynn, the oldest of four children, the captain of his high school basketball team, has been dead now for longer than he was alive. what we've tried to do is put it together. >> reporter: over the years, his family kept the pressure on the u.s. government not to forget the victims. >> i made a commitment to him when he died and i'm hopeful that, you know, he would say "good job." what's weird is that he would be 43 years old today, this month, and instead of him saying "good job" as a 43-year-old, i still picture him saying "good job" as my 21-year-old big brother. >> reporter: this year at arlington national cemetery, as they do every year on the anniversary of the bombing... >> john patrick flynn. >> reporter: ...the flynns will join others who lost loved ones that day. this december 21 will obviously be a very different feeling
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around arlington. >> i don't know how we're going to work champagne into a memorial service, but maybe it's time to try that a little bit to celebrate. >> reporter: finally, a new emotion to join the grief they feel every year. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: president obama said today that on this day america's thoughts and prayers are with families like the flynns and he called on the libyans to continue down the road to democracy. >> the dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted and with this enormous promise the libyan people now have a great responsibility: to build an inclusive and tolerant and democratic libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to qaddafi's dictatorship. >> pelley: the president said the united states is ready to work with libya in that effort. secretary of state hillary clinton was in pakistan when she got the news about qaddafi on a blackberry. tonight she's in pakistan to
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read the government the riot act over attacks on american forces in the region. the u.s. believes pakistan is connected to the haqqani terror network and whit johnson sat down with the secretary in kabul before she left for pakistan today. >> something has changed. the haqqani network is now targeting americans. they attacked this embassy that we're sitting in today. that changes our calculation and the pakistanis need to understand that. >> reporter: this is the attack she means-- a 20-hour assault on the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters last month. that was sharp turn for the worse in u.s./pakistan relations. >> this is a turning point for them, too, to make some serious choices. >> reporter: in the interview, the secretary went farther than the administration has gone before. not just linking pakistan's intelligence agency, the i.s.i., to haqqani terrorists, but the pakistani army, too, the most respected institution in the country. >> there are connections between the military and i.s.i. and the
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a ha canny network. those connections may not have been as much of a concern in the past because they were frankly not as focused on americans in the passion. >> reporter: another problem: safe hay vens inside pakistan that are being used to launch attacks on u.s. troops. how far is the u.s. willing to go in crushing those safe havens. >> what was acceptable before may no longer be acceptable. now, how we work together, how we create new modes of cooperation, that's what we have to discuss. and we will, starting tonight. >> reporter: the fact that secretary clinton has come in person at this moment is a signal that the u.s. is dramatically turning up the pressure on pakistan. whit johnson, cbs news, islamabad. >> pelley: a desperate final act. what may have driven an ohio man to let dozens of dangerous animals run free. steve jobs' secret regret. his biographer reveals it to "60
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>> pelley: in zanesville, ohio, the place said today all those exotic animals released from a farm have now been accounted for. but questions remain about the owner of that farm. cynthia bowers went looking for answers today. >> this is the compound. >> reporter: law enforcement today revealed just how far the
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animals had roamed from their cages and how dangerous the situations had become. sheriffs found and shot tigers and bears in at least three locations around the farm. here close to a neighbor and in this area just yards from interstate 70. a blacker be was shot near a local road. before he shot himself, owner terry thompson released 50 of 56 animals and damaged their cages to make it harder to pin them back up. sheriff matt lutes also said thompson's body had been mauled. >> mr. thompson did have a bite wound to his head area. >> reporter: thompson did not leave a suicide note explaining why he took his life, but there are clues. these tax records indicate that last year he owed the federal government more than $67,000-- a lien had been placed on his property and his wife had recently left him. thompson had been cited nine times for allowing animals to roam free and had been visited
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by police 30 times since 2004. >> we understand there's people frustrated and disappointed and mad. we are. >> reporter: the six surviving animals including leopards and a baby grizzly bear are being cared for at the columbus zoo. ohio governor john kasich hopes to have a law in place that would outlaw sales and ownership of exotic animals by the end of the year. cynthia bowers, cbs news, zanesville, ohio. >> pelley: when we traveled here to chicago for tonight's broadcast, we didn't expect to see this: wrecked boats and debris along the lake front. tropical storm force winds churned up the surf overnight and slammed the boats against a break wall. at least 20 were damaged. steve jobs' many successes are well known. but jobs' biographer reveals one of his biggest regrets. that's next.
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operated on right away. he tries to treat it with diet. he goes to spiritualists. he goes to various ways of doing it macrobuy yotally and he doesn't get an operation. >> reporter: why doesn't he get it operated it on immediately? >> i asked him that. he said "i don't want my body to be opened. i didn't want it to be violated in that way." he's regretful about that and his wife who's a solid decent person understood it but she said "the bod city there to serve the spirit, you should get this operated on." soon everybody is telling him quit trying to treat it with roots and vegetables and things, just get operated on. but he does it nine months later. >> reporter: too late? >> well, one assumes it's too late because by the time they operate on him they notice that it has spread to the tissues around the pancreas. >> reporter: how could such a smart man do such a stupid thing? >> i think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if
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you don't want something to exist you can have magical thinking and it had worked for him in the past. he regretted it. some of the decisions he made, and certainly i think he felt he should have been operated on sooner. >> pelley: steve kroft will have more revelations about steve jobs this sunday on "60 minutes." this is a special anniversary for us at cbs. it was 60 years ago today that the cbs eye made its television debut. >> see the jack benny show on most of these same stations. >> pelley: over the years as the eye was updated, it became one of the most recognized logos in the world and, says cbs president leslie moonves, a major source of pride. so happy anniversary. here's looking at you. we'll show you the real heart of the city when the "cbs evening news" continues from chicago.
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many for hours. >> i got out here at 5:00 this morning. >> reporter: this church foot pantry on chicago's south side is where then president-elect barack obama handed out thanksgiving dinners in 2008. >> happy thanksgiving. >> reporter: back then, the pantry fed about 370 hungry households every week. now the number is up to 500 and counting. every wednesday the line stretches around the corner. >> and it keeps getting worse every week. how are you doing? >> reporter: the priest greets almost everyone. >> i wish you didn't have to wait so long. >> reporter: most like marcia and ray harris live well below the poverty line. >> if we didn't have the food pantry we wouldn't be eating. >> reporter: how do you give these people hope? >> well, really they give me hope. to be one small part of them being able to have what they need. >> reporter: each person gets about 35 pounds of canned goods
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and 35 pounds of fresh meat and produce. most of it donated from local groceries and restaurants. but some wednesdays the food runs out before the people do. what do you say to them? >> apologize. >> reporter: does it in any way test your faith? no, not really, just the opposite. i feel honored and privileged to be a part of the solution rather than the problem. nothing's going to break their spirit. >> thank you, bless you. >> reporter: because, as he sees it, if you take care of the poor... >> you're welcome, baby. >> reporter: ...the poor will take care of you. >> have a blessed day, father. >> you, too, god bless you. >> reporter: dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. with thanks to our good friends here at wbbm for their hospitality, i'm scott pelley in chicago. now, "entertainment
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